"A birthday" [Derek Moore Morgan]

"A birthday" [Derek Moore Morgan]

First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird

Morgan, Derek Moore; music (English, emigrated to Australia in 1974, 1915-2007)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

1940 ca [composition]; 2015 [publication]

Albany: PRB Productions

genre: art song (lied)|song

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"

Composition history: A note on the score states that "these songs were all composed in the 1940s, most of them while Morgan was serving during World War II" (Record for "Six songs for voice and piano").

Tempo markings: "Allegro ma non troppo"

Notes: Included in the 2015 song collection "Six songs for voice and piano," published by PRB Productions, which includes 1. "The daisies" (James Stephens); 2. "Music, when soft voices die" (Percy Shelley); 3. "My pretty sweet, my darling" (Anonymous); 4. "The everlasting mercy" (John Masefield); 5. "Beauty" (Masefield); 6. "A birthday" (Christina Rossetti).

Format 1: musical score

6 pages

Other data reference(s): Record for "Six songs for voice and piano." Library of Congress, https://lccn.loc.gov/2016564414. Accessed 1 Apr. 2019.

Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa

musical score: Morgan, Derek Moore. "A birthday." Six songs for voice and piano, PRB Productions, 2015, pp. 18-23. California State University, Long Beach

Record: CRM-birthday-morgan

"Copyright © 2015 by Hebe Morgan"

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